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Today we present the Target2-system and the fiscal bail-out facilities in our series on European efforts to bail out itself. For new readers, check out part 1 here http://bawerk.net/?p=123 Tran-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System – TARGET2 In order to facilitate cross-border financial transactions within the currency union an interbank payment system was…

Over the last couple of years we have been tracking the various bail-out schemes concocted by ingenious Eurocrats. It is truly fascinating to observe these people get entangled in one lie after another; always trying to resolve the old lie with a new one. The hard cold truth is of course that Europe is bankrupt!…

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